Nonrefillable bottle



H. KANz NONREFILLABLE BOTTLE Filed March 21, 1953 Feb. 5, 1935.

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Patented Feb. 5, 1935 UNITED srArss miren orrlcEY Hans Kanz, Zurich, Switzerland Application March 21, 1933, Serial No. 661,894

In Switzerland March 28, 1932 3 Claims. (Cl. 215--21) The present invention relates to improvements stopper from the bottle neck. Any other suitable in bottles, jars or the like and in Stoppers thereseal might be used. for and more especially to bottles for wines and The device operates as follows: spirits. By pouring out the original contents rof the The main objects of the invention is to provide bottle by unscrewing cap 7 and tilting the latter 5 means to prevent and to detect relling or the the ball l1 runs down in the tube until it reaches illicit tampering with the closure of the bottle. the neck 12. The liquid passes through the stop- I attain this and other objects by means of a per by the way indicated by the arrow III. The Stopper adapted to be inserted in the normally liquid passes through chamber 18, slots 5 into the l0 shaped neck of any bottle of usual design. Space 19 between the parts 1 and 2 and enters l0 In the accompanying drawing forming part of chamber 16 by the slots 4, and leaves the tube 2. this specication A re-iilling of the bottle is prevented by the ball Fig. l is a vertical sectional view of the bottle ll which comes to rest on the seat l0, by its own neck with the stopper inserted, weight and closes thereby the passage for the Figs. 2 and 3 are cross sections on the lines liquid. The re-lling of the bottle by using vacl5 I-I and II--l respectively. uum is also impossible. If the bottle is evacu- The stopper shown comprises a tubular body 1 ated and if the bottle is immersed in the liquid of sheet metal. Within the tubular body 1 a with the stopper lowermost then the liquid will second tube 2 is co-aXially arranged, the parts 1 take the path indicated by the arrow IV. The

and 2 are rigidly connected with each other. The liquid passes through tube 2, slots 4, into space 19, 20 tube 2 is divided in two chambers 17, 18 by means slots 5 into the chamber 18. The liquid presses of a disk 3 rigidly fixed in said tube 2. In the the ball 11 on the seat 10, as the ball 11 is of walls of the chambers 17, 18 slots 4 and 5 respeccomparatively light material. The ball 11 pretively are provided, the slots 4, 5 are circumfervents the liquid entering the bottle.

entially displaced with reference to each other The new closure fulfills all the following re- 25 to prevent a piece of wire or the like passed quirements: through one of the slots 4 to reach a slot 5 and l. The stopper can be used with any normal to operate the valve body 11 or to retain it on and cheaply produced bottle which has not to be the seat 10. The upper portion 6 of the tubular altered,

body 1 is screw-threaded, a screw-threaded cap 2. The mounting of the device is simple and 30 7 closes the upper orifice of the tube 2. Within needs little time. the cap 7 a washer 8 of cork or other suitable 3. The purchase price of the vstopper is low and material is arranged. The lower portion of the the construction is very simple. f tubular body 1 is strengthened by a socket 9 of 4. The bottle is non-rellable even when vacsheet metal which socket 9 provides a seat 10 uum is used.

for a ball 11. The ball 11 forming the valve body 5. The stopper does not hinder a rapid disconsists of a material the specific weight of which pensing of the liquid. differs but little from that of the liquid which 6. The valve is not accessible from the outthe bottle is to receive. Moreover a material is to side and cannot be tampered with by any means. be used having the required hardness and which '7. The bottle may be tightly closedbysimple 4.0 will not corrode etc. by the liquid. Amber and means the closure or seal may be opened without certain artiiicial compounds such as artificial destroying parts thereof. resins have been found suitable. The ball 11 8. No essential part of the stopper can be reruns easily in the tube 2, a neck 12 pressed in said moved without hurting the seal or capsule. tube 2 acts as a stop for said ball 11 when the 9, All the parts are simple and eiective in 45 bottle is tilted and emptied. The tubular body 1 working, moreover is provided with a neck 13 which con- 10, After removing the stopper the bottle is tacting with the tube 2 directs any liquid filled in ready to be used again. at the mouth of the tube 2 into the chamber 18. I claim and desire to secure by United States On the tubular body l a sleeve 14 of cork, rubber Letters Patent;- 50

Or the like, iS arranged by Which the StODpeT iS l. A closure for a non-reiillable bottle compristightly held in the neck 15 of the bottle. @ver ing a, Stopper removably arranged in the'neck of the neck 15 and the St0l3PY-S1eVG 14 2f Capsule the bottle consisting of two concentrieally ar- 16 0f tin foil etc. iS tightly dYaWIl Whh Capsule ranged. cylindrical members, forming at their WOuld be hilft by any attempt t0 TGIIIOV@ the connecting lower ends aseat foravalve, the inner 55 member being divided in two chambers by a partition, both of these members being provided with beadings for' guiding the liquid and the displacement of the valve.

2. A closure for a non-rellable bottle comprising a stopper removably arranged in the neck of the bottle consisting of two concentrically arranged Cylindrical members, forming at their connecting lower ends a seat for a valve, the inner member being divided in two chambers by a partition, both of these members being provided with beadings for guiding the liquid and the movementI of the valve, the beading of the inner member serving as a stop for the valve displacement.

3. A closure for a non-rellable bottle comprising a stopper removably arranged in the neck of the bottle consisting of two concentrically arranged cylindrical members, forming at their connecting lower ends a seat for a valve, the inner member being divided in two chambers by a partition, both of these members being provided with headings for guiding the liquid and the displacement of the valve, the latter having about the same specic weight as the liquid.

HANS KANZ. 

